lajoswinkler

It is absolutely impossible to approach Kerbol unless you turn off heating. Turn it off and use Hyper Edit to remove your orbital speed because it's ungodly huge in low orbit.

I'm on a hiatus until v1.1 comes out. There isn't much sense in doing a large scale mission in ther middle of large software changes, and I'd really like to use the opportunities new version offers.

No, black is not a color, physically (no EM radiation human eyes respond to) and physiologically (no retina reaction) speaking. Artistically, yes, but science beats art. LOL We could do that with anything. We could use gamma rays. Or even neutrons, ascribing color to their "temperatures" which is something it's actually done. It doesn't change the fact that human eyes are our measure for what color is, and that is the effect an average human eye sees when eyposed to EM radiation with wavelengths of 390-700 nm. Those grayscale images you're talking about aren't really grayscale because grayscale is just a neat way (using intensities of white) to show "this part of image has more/less information about radiation". We're just using grayscale for our convenience. The image is not false. The claim that "this thing looks like this" is false because it does not look like that to human eyes. It's like drawing atoms and saying "atoms look like this". They don't. We can draw their models, but can't see them because they don't even respond to visible wavelenghts as they're not macroscopic objects. I don't want people to get the idea this is a philosophical question because it's not. It's just a question of definitions and consistency.

You're contradicting yourself right there.

Red knew the proper name.

I like how it poops the bottle into his hand. Nothing like a refreshing drink pooped from a plastic anus straight into your hand.

I could certainly not form in space because vacuum does not allow it. Living there... it would need nutrients. Lots of nutrients have a nasty tendency to coalesce into balls that exert considerable gravity so the creature would need to expell some of its matter to get away and that is a high price to pay. It's highly unlikely.

Concept of biofuel is plausible and promising, but its current implementation is shoddy. One day it will most certainly be our source of complex organic substances as crude oil is today, but I doubt it will have much application in energy production.

Ovdje ne može biti necropostinga.

No, that's: 1) false color near infrared 2) enhanced visible Infrared has no color.

I haven't forgotten about it, but our eyes are what they are. We see what we see and that's it.

It's rarely described, and even then, in most cases you need to dig. 99% of people don't do that. They see the photo in the article and that's it. That's how the things work and that's the fact the authors need to adjust to. The annotation is for those people who are the vast majority. It's visible as a pale, dim blob in best conditions.

No, you've missed the point. The fracture is not a lie. The nebula is not a lie. The presented image is a lie if it's presented with the words: "this is how this thing looks like". Common people think space looks really great as they imagine all the colorful things out there, those huge c&c things made of extremely rarified gases. They are fed with this: And this: In reality, nebulas are pale, dim objects that would look like this if you approached them. I'm not saying we should put black squares in articles, but general public should at least have something like "infrared image with false color to show compositional differences". That's it.

No, it's not a matter of feeling. It's a matter of hard technological facts. We already use sunlight, and we use it a lot. We use it to make food. Enormous fields that take up space for all those kilowatthours, fragments of which are bonded in the biomass we use for all kinds of things. Plants do it extremely well. They do what we can't - total synthesis of highly complex organic molecules. We also use Sun's energy for heating our homes, drying our wet stuff, etc. We use it for stuff that doesn't really matter this power source's density is freakishly low and it's available for way less than 0.5 days/year on average. There's a reason why energy management is something that can't be done by people whose only experience with it are games where all the sources are equal and you just have to pile up enough of the weak ones to do the same thing. And no, what I'm writing isn't negative for the sake of being opposite to mainstream hippy-dippy "green" stuff. It is factual. Renewables are not in the same category as baseload sources and will never be unless you are willing to live in a shed by a babbling brook with your dog and use PV cells and batteries that were made in a town somewhere in China, town that was horribly polluted to make those, just to make you feel "one with the nature". Baseload is baseload. We can play with the upper part of the graph using wind turbines (that need their gas burning plants backups), but the base needs stability.

Those shades are actually artificially colored because they're, for the most part, made in near infrared which passes through interstellar material way better. So yeah, they are a lie in a sort of sense.

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/ This is intriguing. The quoted part is true, but I'm not sure if the rest of the text is supposed to be funny or... I don't know, im confus.

*photo of a naked person taking a shower*

If the question is "What should be the main power source for Earth?", then "a balanced mix of both" is out of the question for obvious reasons. The proper answer is, of course, nuclear. At this moment fission and, hopefully in the future, fusion. Renewables are for buoys, calculators, sheds and space satellites.

Great. Now we have mechanical mosquitos.

What do you mean source... Open Stellarium and see for yourself.

The event will occur on 2016/04/06, at around 08:30 UTC. Exact time depends on your location on Earth - after all, the object that occults is much closer to us than to the target of occultation. Expect several minutes of difference. Venus will slide behind the Moon in less than 30 seconds, then stay behind it for more than an hour, and then slide out. The event will be visible some 17° away from the solar disk, so be careful. Stay in a shade behind a building or something to remove the glare. The event can be seen with a naked eye because Venus is always visible like that, but it would be much easier if you used a telescope or at least binoculars. Check it in Stellarium or any similar software for exact local time of the event.

You couldn't see the atmosphere like that. It's edge of photo because it's jagged like a bad crop.

That link discusses water piping which was unlikely to cause much damage. However, I'm talking about their culinary habits. Cooking stuff in lead vessels, using lead based glazing, utensils, that is a potent source of lead. If sapa isn't one, what is? They were basically eating soluble lead. Interesting enough, the richer you were, the greater your exposure was likely to be. Very poor people did not use sapa as often as emperors. Also, soldiers and their families, used to life of pleasures (as usual, but more pronounced back then), were gulping down lead more often than peasants. Lead was concentrating in nervous systems of people who were making decisions and executing those decisions. It's exactly the main problem.

The General Discussion subforum is in the wrong section.

There was an insiduous enemy within the empire that gradually crumbled it. It was lead exposure. Ancient Romans laced their food and beverages with sapa which is a concentrate of wine must, boiled down in lead vessels. Lead(II) acetate inside. It was a longterm, massive social exposure to a very quiet neurological poison causing, among other things, antisocial behaviour. They never stood a chance with all that violence that never ceased.